Posts Tagged ‘Assisted suicide’

Dear Lord Falconer, I see that you write in The Times today that your "Commission on Assisted Dying" is "independent" and conducting a "serious and dispassionate investigation" into the need for a cha...
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I have been asked to give evidence to Lord Falconer's entirely bogus "Commission on Assisted Dying", which launches itself at the London offices of think-tank Demos tomorrow. The former Lord Chancello...
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If we were to overturn the present law banning assisted suicide, 1,000 Britons would die in this way every year. Living and Dying Well, the new think tank that has made this calculation, is right t...
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There's a cushy living to be made out of assisted suicide. One man, Ludwig Minelli, is living proof of it: he is alleged to have done well out of his Dignitas clinic, where, for $10,000, someone who i...
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Listening to the repeat of novelist Sarah Dunant's A Point of View on Radio 4 on the way to church this morning really brought home the moral paucity of the assisted-suicide lobby and its inate selfis...
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Very sensible new guidelines from the General Medical Council today on end-of-life care. Many doctors have become altogether too litigation-conscious when it comes to terminally ill patients and some ...
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Update: The British Medical Association has been in touch to make it clear that it's not lobbying anyone on Evan Harris's behalf. I didn't mean to suggest that the BMA formally supported his attempt t...
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Hurray for David Cameron for pledging to resist the legalisation of assisted suicide. George Pitcher is right. You do not have to be religious to understand how creepy it would be if the government, ...
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David Cameron's early-doors pledge, in an interview with The Catholic Herald, to review Britain's abortion laws, with a stated personal preference for a lowering of the upper limit from 24 weeks, and ...
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Interesting that the son of Sir Edward and Lady Downes, who killed themselves at the Dignitas suicide facility in Switzerland last year, won't be prosecuted. This is the first decision in such a case ...
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